In the list of the world's best travel destinations in 2022 released by Lonely Planet, a global travel authority, Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, China, ranked third, the only region in China to make the list. Lonely Planet commented: "Even a well-informed traveler can hardly not be moved by the nature of Xishuangbanna! ”
Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Mengbalanasi, is one of the 8 autonomous prefectures in Yunnan Province, the capital of Jinghong City, on the northern edge of the tropics south of the Tropic of Cancer, bordering Pu'er City to the northeast and northwest, Laos to the southeast, and Myanmar to the southwest.
Xishuangbanna is yunnan's dazzling business card, beautiful tropical, subtropical rainforest, tropical monsoon rainforest, gully rainforest scenery, rare and ancient animals and plants, brilliant and colorful national culture...
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, is the largest botanical garden in China, the richest collection of species, the largest number of plant parks, and a comprehensive botanical garden integrating tropical scientific research, species conservation and science education.
The Botanical Gardens cover an area of 1,100 hectares and feature more than 13,700 species of tropical plants spread across 38 specialty gardens, where thousands of rare species of plants can be seen. In summer, Wang Lian from the Amazon stretches her body and can carry a maximum weight of 70 kilograms.
In Xishuangbanna, there is the only place in China where you can communicate closely with Asian wild elephants. Known as "the bridge between humans and Asian wild elephants", wild elephant valley is the seventh batch of national ecological environment science popularization bases, and also undertakes the "national science popularization education base" and "China Yunnan Asian elephant breeding base".
Located 22 kilometers from Jinghong City, Wild Elephant Valley is China's first national park with the theme of animal protection and environmental protection. It is a frequent place for Asian wild elephants, and hundreds of precious Asian elephants, bison, green peacocks and black bears thrive in this primeval forest.
Manting Park is located in Xishuangbanna Prefecture capital jinghong City Manting Road No. 35, covers an area of more than 400 acres, there are more than 500 well-preserved ancient iron knife trees and vegetation, the park has hills and rivers, and there are strong ethnic characteristics of the cultural landscape, is a natural village-style park, formerly the Dai King Royal Garden, has a history of more than 1300 years, is the oldest park in Xishuangbanna.
The Dai people used to call it "Spring Joy", which means "Garden of the Soul". In the park, there are Dai King's Palace, Zhanghating, Twin Pagodas, White Pagoda, Pandorani Dripping Goddess Statue and wapaj General Buddhist Temple, which is famous in Southeast Asia, which embodies the three theme characteristics of "Dai Royal Family Culture, Buddhist Culture and Dai Folk Culture", and is the Buddhist center and Buddhist cultural center of Xishuangbanna.
The Shuangjing of The West of The Village is a Dai language, which means "Nine Pagodas and Twelve Villages" in Chinese, aiming to recreate the grand scenery of Jinghong in ancient times and create a prosperous "City in the City of Jinghong City". Jiezhuang Night Market is good-looking and delicious, is a popular landmark to come to Banna, and also listed the first batch of national night culture and tourism consumption agglomeration areas!
This is the most distinctive water night market in China, it will be five Southeast Asian countries Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and China Dai customs together, the small night market has become a condensed version of Southeast Asian countries, a night without going abroad can experience the different architectural styles of the six countries, different cuisines from each country.
Stroll through the crowds in Xishuangbanna, listen to the rare and ancient animals and plants that come from the language of hundreds of years ago, and experience the unique ethnic customs in the lights of the night market.